Friday 12 November 2010

Your blogs MUST include:

  • critical analysis of the work of Saul Bass
  • evidence of research into similar media texts and analysis of their forms and conventions
  • a logline for your film idea/concept and/or a mind-map exploring narrative/character
  • development of ideas
  • draft storyboards and plans
  • a comprehensive set of posts outlining the processes in the development of your film and the decisions and revisions made
  • your continuity/preliminary sequence
  • your final title sequence

Your blogs SHOULD include:

  • location shots
  • casting shots
  • a filmed practice with camera movement/cuts and sound
  • second/third draft storyboards
  • music choices discussion and analysis with audio extracts
  • the first cut of your sequence with analysis
  • detailed critique of the development process with reflective commentary on the decisions and revisions made.
  • exploration of why opening title sequences are so important to the film industry
  • photographs of the shoot – you in action!
  • shooting schedule
  • mini-evaluative postings showing reflective thought processes throughout the project
  • evidence of audience profiling

Your blog COULD include:

  • thorough audience research exploring the relationship between opening title sequences and spectator responses to film
  • a detailed audience profile drawing upon demographic and psychographic profiling techniques
  • audience responses to your finished film
  • evidence into ‘Film Production’ processes undertaking a case study into a specific studio or film and tracking its production, distribution and marketing strategies.

Some more useful title sequence websites:

http://www.artofthetitle.com/about/

http://mmbase.submarinechannel.com/titlesequences/

http://shadowplaystudio.com/smoking.html

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/19/30-unforgettable-movie-title-sequences/

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